Pole Display - Solution!

[Dale Harris]

Jon has requested a 3rd line for the pole display.

The first 14 characters are the stock number, the next two are unused. The next two are the data type, 1 = sale, 2 = return / payout, 0 = other. The last two are the MKI$(x) of a number that changes sequentually every time the pole data is updated. When the number reaches 32,000 it is reset to zero.

The POLE.DAT file is now opened as a random, shared, read/write file with a record length of 20. http://keyhut.com/pos51c.zip

[Jonathan]

I have not had a chance to play with the new version (5.01c) yet, but hopefully tomorrow I will...
Anyway, I am working on a basic program for windows that will send pole.dat info to a serial pole display. If I can get any more info on parrallel displays, I'll look into that as well. The obvious problem here is that I do not have a pole display, so I also need someone who can test it... preferably someone who is available in the late evenings (9pm-11pm EST)

Any volunteers?

Jonathan Simpson

[Chas]

Hey JS, I Have a Logic controls PD3000 Serial Display...
I'm willing to test it with you.

Chas

[gabriel]

Is this Pole Display Solution available in DOS program? I'm currently using a pure DOS environment without any Windows...

[Andrew]

Please remember that Dale is only dumping the information (as requested) to a file, it is the responsibility of the user to find an appropriate program such as JS's program and output it to the pole display.

We need to run before we can walk - we have barely gotten the information onto a pole display and already there are requests for scrolling and this and that and the other.

This is why software developers cringe when they add a feature someone wants, because they know there will be a deluge of additions/complaints/demands.

Give it time peeps, I don't think this has even been out for a week yet.

[Jonathan Simpson]

The pole display stuff is not really OS dependant... it would work on DOS if someone makes a program which will allow it to do so. A TSR would be ideal for this. Once I get the kinks worked out of the windows version, I should be able to make a very similar DOS version. Keep in mind, the programs I am making for this are very basic... they are not suitable for full "customer displays", although I might (probably will) work on that as well once time permits.

Jonathan Simpson